This was the weekend I first heard the cicadas this year. This is a tiny linocut of a large, well-loved, well-known insect with a long song. The Tibicen canicularis, also known as dogday harvestfly or dog-day cicada, is common in North America and its power-saw like buzzing song is taken as a sign of summer. It lives in deciduous and mixed woods in southern Canada & NE US.

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